SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:14
No he comido de ello en mi luto, ni he sacado de ello estando en inmundicia, ni de ello he dado para mortuorio; he escuchado la voz del SEÑOR mi Dios, he hecho conforme a todo lo que me has mandado.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 26:14
Verse 14. I have not-given aught thereof for the dead] That is, I have not consecrated any of it to an idol which was generally a dead man whom superstition and ignorance had deified. From 1 Cor. x. 27, 28, we learn that it was customary to offer that flesh to idols which was afterwards sold publicly in the shambles; probably the blood was poured out before the idol in imitation of the sacrifices offered to the true God. Perhaps the text here alludes to a similar custom.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 14. I have not eaten thereof in my mourning , etc.] When in grief and sorrow on account of any afflictive circumstance, for these were to be eaten with joy, ( Deuteronomy 16:11 26:11); and especially of the loss of relations by death, when holy things were not to be eaten by such persons; (see Leviticus 10:19); and particularly tithes, though it is said f478 , “What is doubtful of tithing (whether it has been tithed or no) might be eaten by a mourner;” and a man was reckoned such an one until his dead was buried. So Maimonides observes, “a mourner may not eat holy things, as it is written, ( Deuteronomy 26:14); he is one whose relation is dead, when he is obliged to mourn; for he is called by the law a mourner as long as the dead lies upon the face of the earth (above ground), or as long as he is not yet buried he is called a mourner; and so likewise on the day of burial:” neither have I taken away [ought] thereof for [any] unclean [use] ; or common use, or any other use than it was designed for, and devoted to; or for any unclean person, who by the law might not eat thereof; or, as Jarchi interprets it, that he had not removed it, or taken it away from being eaten, on account of any unclean person, because I am unclean and he pure, or he pure and I unclean: nor given ought thereof for the dead ; for the necessities of the dead, as Aben Ezra; more particularly Jarchi, to make for him a coffin and grave clothes; and so the Targum of Jonathan interprets it of grave clothes for the dead; though that of Jerusalem of clothes for those that are polluted by the dead. It may have respect also to the parentalia, or funeral feasts made at the interment of the dead; though Aben Ezra says, there are some that say it was for idolatry, and so the person here speaking denies that he had made use of any of the holy things in honour of idols, of dead men deified; and some are of opinion that all the above things may have some respect to idolatrous practices f480 : [but] I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, [and] have done according to all that thou hast commanded me ; observed his word, and kept close to it, and not swerved from it, but acted according to it in all things before referred to.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 12-15 - How should the earth yield its increase, or, if it does, what comfor can we take in it, unless therewith our God gives us his blessing? All this represented the covenant relation between a reconciled God an every true believer, and the privileges and duties belonging to it. We must be watchful, and show that according to the covenant of grace in Christ Jesus, the Lord is our God, and we are his people, waiting in his appointed way for the performance of his gracious promises.
Original Hebrew
לא 3808 אכלתי 398 באני 205 ממנו 4480 ולא 3808 בערתי 1197 ממנו 4480 בטמא 2931 ולא 3808 נתתי 5414 ממנו 4480 למת 4191 שׁמעתי 8085 בקול 6963 יהוה 3068 אלהי 430 עשׂיתי 6213 ככל 3605 אשׁר 834 צויתני׃ 6680
